RALEIGH — A panel of federal judges ruled on Friday that a North Carolina judge should have imposed a harsher sentence on former N.C. Department of Transportation Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill for his role in the illegal dredging of the Currituck Sound in 2004.
RALEIGH — When Beverly Perdue replaces Gov. Mike Easley on Jan. 10 she will inherit serious problems with North Carolina’s probation, mental health, and transportation systems, as well as a major budget shortfall.
RALEIGH — North Carolina tried to use the Internet auction site eBay to sell the pontoon passenger ferry it bought in 2004 for a route across Currituck Sound, but the auction deadline passed Monday with no acceptable bids for the unused vessel.
RALEIGH — A U.S. District judge sentenced two former N.C. Ferry Division officials Tuesday to three years of probation for their roles in the illegal dredging of the Currituck Sound in 2004.
RALEIGH — U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle continued a hearing Monday in which a former director of the N.C. DOT Ferry Division was to have been sentenced for making false statements that obstructed an investigation of illegal dredging in the Currituck Sound.
RALEIGH — Less than two months remain before the elections in November, and while Republicans nationally worry how scandals and spending could lessen their prospects for maintaining power in Congress, in North Carolina it’s the reverse — Democrats fear that corruption might be their undoing.
RALEIGH — A jury found former Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill guilty on Thursday of making a material false statement to a federal agency in connection with an investigation of the illegal dredging, or “prop washing,” of a channel in an essential marine habitat in the Currituck Sound. Related Currituck Ferry Articles: 'I'm extremely disappointed in the verdict'
RALEIGH — U. S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle created some excitement among the more than 25 friends and witnesses that had come to show their support for former Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill yesterday when he dropped two of the four charges Gaskill was facing in federal court.
RALEIGH — Former North Carolina Department of Transportation business officer Charles Utz admitted in federal court yesterday that he prepared a letter claiming the dredging in the Currituck Sound was accidental even though he had already determined it was deliberate.
RALEIGH — Former North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill, whose trial for illegal activities associated with the state’s efforts to establish a passenger ferry service across the shallow Currituck Sound began yesterday, claimed that his subordinates conducted the illegal activities without his knowledge. Related Currituck Ferry Articles: Gaskill expected to testify in trial
RALEIGH — Twelve jurors and two alternates were selected yesterday for the trial of former N. C. Department of Transportation Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill. A federal grand jury indicted Gaskill, 63, of Cedar Island on Jan. 18 for illegal activities associated with the state’s efforts to establish a passenger ferry service across the Currituck Sound.
